Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1170 Prepared by C. Thomas, NVI, Inc./GSFC Refer to http://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/program/descrip2005.html#r1 for the session purpose. =========================================================== Parameter values for experiment R1170 Experiment description: IVS-R1 Scheduler: NASA Correlator: Please see master schedule Nominal start: 2005-101-17:00:00 Nominal end: 2005-102-17:00:00 Current yyyyddd: 2005101 (2005.28) ( 13472 MJD, MON. 11APR.) Greenwich sidereal time: 6:20: 1.00 (17: 0: 0 UT) Sun's RA and DEC: 1h 21.0m 8d 32.0 =========================================================== There are no observations for Wettzell from 18:00 U.T. to 20:00 U.T. Wettzell will participate in the intensive session during this two hour period. =========================================================== Ny Alesund was tagged along to this session. =========================================================== First observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Ny On Tc Ts Wf Wz 3C446 05101-170000| 74 128 128 | OQ208 05101-170000| 40 52 52 40| =========================================================== Last observations Source Start DURATIONS name yyddd-hhmmss Gc Ny On Tc Ts Wf Wz 0607-157 05102-164351| 86 86 40| 1705+018 05102-164509| 40 40 | CTA26 05102-164617| 40 40 40| 1726+455 05102-164653| 40 40 40 | 0454-234 05102-164750| 62 62 40| =========================================================== SKED Summary from file ./r1170.skd for experiment R1170 (all scans with at least one subnet station) Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) = 8.7 Min = .0 Max = 102.9 (Baseline Ts-Wz on 1958-179) RMS = 11.4 Total time: 1429 minutes ( 23.8 hours). Key: Gc=GILCREEK Ny=NYALES20 On=ONSALA60 Tc=TIGO Ts=TSUKUB32 Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL Gc Ny On Tc Ts Wf Wz Avg % obs. time: 43 27 46 28 34 46 36 37 % cal. time: 6 4 5 2 6 5 5 5 % slew time: 29 19 27 6 21 21 14 20 % idle time: 22 49 20 63 38 27 44 38 total # scans: 480 335 462 198 472 424 435 400 # scans/hour : 20.2 14.1 19.4 8.3 19.8 17.8 18.3 16.8 Avg scan (sec): 76 69 85 120 63 92 72 82 Total GBytes: 1486 955 1582 929 1233 1562 1283 1290 Total GB(M5): 1321 849 1406 826 1096 1389 1141 1147 # of tapes : 2.8 1.6 2.5 1.6 1.9 2.5 2.1 tape change times (hhmm): 0119 0856 0304 0851 0535 0236 0617 1025 0000 1218 0000 0000 1227 1637 Total number of tapes: 14.9 Total GBytes (M5) recorded: 8026.8 # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE | Gc Ny On Tc Ts Wf Wz StnTotal ------------------------------------------ Gc|480 207 144 34 354 216 120 1075 Ny| 335 250 12 180 154 217 1020 On| 462 30 172 162 394 1152 Tc| 198 34 156 32 298 Ts| 472 120 153 1013 Wf| 424 147 955 Wz| 435 1063 Number of 2-station scans: 476 Number of 3-station scans: 249 Number of 4-station scans: 130 Number of 5-station scans: 73 Number of 6-station scans: 37 Number of 7-station scans: 0 Total # of scans, observations: 965 3288 =========================================================== Recording mode Name Code GEOSX4F 4F Recording mode setup for: GILCREEK Mode Tot.Rate Tot.BandW #chan #bits Barrel VLBA1:2 256.000 Mbits 128.000 MHz 14 1 8:1 Chan.BW #Subpasses Tracks(*fan) Tot.tracks Speed 8.00 MHz 1 16(*2) 32 160.00 X-band spanned bw= 720.0 MHz rms spanned bw= 280.4 MHz S-band spanned bw= 120.0 MHz rms spanned bw= 48.8 MHz Effective number of channels recorded per sub-pass X S Total 10.000 6.000 16.000 Recording mode setup for: NYALES20 ONSALA60 TIGOCONC WESTFORD WETTZELL Mode Tot.Rate Tot.BandW #chan #bits Barrel Mk341:2 256.000 Mbits 128.000 MHz 14 1 16 Chan.BW #Subpasses Tracks(*fan) Tot.tracks Speed 8.00 MHz 1 16(*2) 32 160.00 X-band spanned bw= 720.0 MHz rms spanned bw= 280.4 MHz S-band spanned bw= 120.0 MHz rms spanned bw= 48.8 MHz Effective number of channels recorded per sub-pass X S Total 10.000 6.000 16.000 Recording mode setup for: TSUKUB32 Mode Tot.Rate Tot.BandW #chan #bits Barrel Mk341:2 256.000 Mbits 128.000 MHz 14 1 NONE Chan.BW #Subpasses Tracks(*fan) Tot.tracks Speed 8.00 MHz 1 16(*2) 32 160.00 X-band spanned bw= 720.0 MHz rms spanned bw= 280.4 MHz S-band spanned bw= 120.0 MHz rms spanned bw= 48.8 MHz Effective number of channels recorded per sub-pass X S Total 10.000 6.000 16.000 =========================================================== Monitoring Sources Source Min Max Actual Num #Scans 0123+257 1.00 1.50 1.22 40 17 0422+004 1.00 1.50 .73 24 11 0212+735 1.00 1.50 1.40 46 4 0827+243 1.00 1.50 1.13 37 9 1150+497 1.00 1.50 1.70 56 6 2214+350 1.00 1.50 .97 32 8 1849+670 1.00 1.50 1.31 43 7 2335-027 1.00 1.50 .55 18 14 1705+018 1.00 1.50 .91 30 19 0544+273 1.00 1.50 1.19 39 17 Total 11.10 365 112 =========================================================== Minor Options Option Norm Wt Aux_Parm Astro Abs 3.00 BegScan Rel 1.00 EndScan Rel 1.00 StatIdle Abs 3.00 StatWt Abs 1.00 FFFTF FF =========================================================== Major Options SkyCov Yes Min_Between 20 Best% 60.0 Last_Hrs 1.00 Add_ps 30.00 Obs_Wts SNRwt =========================================================== Tape types ID Station Tape length Density Passes Gc GILCREEK 17400feet (Thin ) 56700 (HIGH ) 12 Ny NYALES20 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14 On ONSALA60 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14 Tc TIGOCONC 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14 Ts TSUKUB32 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14 Wf WESTFORD 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14 Wz WETTZELL 17400feet (Thin ) 56250 (HIGH ) 14 =========================================================== SNR Targets Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans X-band (margin 5) S-band (margin 3) Gc Ny On Tc Ts Wf Gc Ny On Tc Ts Wf Ny 20 Ny 15 On 20 20 On 15 15 Tc 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 Ts 20 20 20 15 Ts 15 15 15 12 Wf 20 20 20 15 20 Wf 15 15 15 12 15 Wz 20 20 20 15 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 12 15 15